Herbivores
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| Name: | Scarlet Macaw |
| Description: | Scarlet Macaws are brightly colored birds that live in the rainforest. Their feathers are red, yellow, and blue. The face has short white hairs that surround the light yellow colored eyes. The beak is light on the top and dark black on the bottom. The legs and feet are black also. |
| Habitat: | Canopy and emergent layers from Mexico to the Amazon Rainforest. |
| Diet: | Seeds, nuts, clay, andsometimes they eat fruit. |
| Predators: | The Scarlet Macaw's preadators are Carnivores, humans, and the Harpy eagle. |
| Name: | Sloth |
| Description: | The sloth has a round head with a flat face and small, hidden ears.They have three long, strong claws on their hands.Their furis coarse, long and shaggy, often tinged green with a blue-green algae. Head and body grizzled tan. The most noticable feature is the long, black mane on the shoulders and back of the neck. Measurements: Head-Body: 450-500mm; Tail: 48-50mm; Hind Foot: 100-115mm. |
| Habitat: | They live in the canopy layer of Amazon Rainforest. They also live in Central America, Honduras, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. |
| Diet: | They eat fruits, leaves, and buds. The three-toed sloth loves to eat the leaves of the Cecropia tree. |
| Predators: | Cats (the jaguar and ocelot), snakes (the anaconda), and the Harpy Eagle. |
Two toed Sloth
| Name: | Brazilian Tapir |
| Description: | The Brazilian tapir is related to the horse and rhinoceros and lives deep within the Amazon rain forest near watering holes. It is a pig-like animal which has a stocky body with four front toes and three hind toes. The Brazilian tapir has a moveable nose that it uses to sniff out food. |
| Habitat: | The tapir live in the South American Rainforests and parts of Central America. They also live in Southeast Asia.The like dense forests. |
| Diet: | They eat mostly grass (green shoots), and also twigs and shrubs. |
| Predators: | Their main preaditors are poachers (their skin makes excellent leather) and big cats like the jaguar. |